T.N.C. Vidya

🚨 #BREAKINGNEWS Israel claims hitting hospitals and civilian areas is a war crime. They are right. These pictures are horrific. Oh wait. This is what Israel did to Gaza with cluster bombs, ballistic missiles, into civilians living rooms and hospital beds. 🚨

If you are a theoretical physics grad student right now, you might feel tempted to outsource all your work to LLMs. This may feel beneficial in the short term, but it can be harmful in the long term. A PhD is a training period where you develop your knowledge of the subject. You learn to recognize good ideas and promising research directions and spot errors and unpromising avenues. These skills, which are going to remain important in the near future, can't be learned except by doing. More broadly, the ability to think, problem-solve and communicate are going to be your selling points in the job market, whether in academia or industry, at least till the time everyone starts carrying pocket-Wittens. The ability to write prompts won't get you hired. This is not to say you should not use gen ai in your work, but that you should prioritize your development as a researcher over the temptation to optimize quantitative metrics like number of publications.

But definitely dont ask why the United States has a military base 15,000km away from its territory, on a coral island in the middle of the Indian Ocean, that was illegally cleansed of all of its native inhabitants to make way for the installation

Can someone - like a UK Government Minister - explain THIS? How is it that the West insists on passage through the Strait of Hormuz while AT THE SAME TIME it is stopping ships & blockading Cuba in an attempt to STARVE the Cubans? MAYBE @BBCNews could ask this, FFS?!?

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Do you see now how restrained Iran have been throughout the years, in spite of everything the US and Israel did to them?

Please circulate widely! Open positions at the Vision Lab, Centre for Neuroscience, Indian Institute of Science (IISc) Deadline: March 31 2026 (Link in thread below)

@abandopa @RyanRozbiani Yeah. Infuriating what they get away with.

@RyanRozbiani @tncvidya He was an academic. I am sad at the killing of Dr. Larijani.

JUST IN 🇮🇷🇺🇸: Iranian state media reports that Ali Larijani was killed at his daughter's house in the Pardis area inTehran. Footage from Pardis shows a whole residential area completely destroyed by Israeli strikes. This means MANY civilians were killed, along with Dr. Larijani. Collective Punishement by Israel. No lives matter.

Massive protests worldwide against the United States and Israel’s war on Iran.

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There is an invisible layer that affects many friendships in Bengaluru. That layer is called urban and civic exhaustion. Friendships don’t fade because people don’t care. They fade because the city quietly drains the energy required to sustain them. The traffic takes an hour out of your evening. Work spills into what used to be personal time. Weekends become recovery periods rather than social ones. You start saying things like: “Let’s meet soon.” “Next week for sure.” “Once things settle down.” Things rarely settle down. What earlier required a 10 minute auto ride now requires planning, coordination, and stamina. You have to build stamina to be rejected by drivers on apps, to cross under constructed sites, to take long jumps over open drainages and collect dust on your face. Friendships slowly move from physical spaces to WhatsApp reactions and Instagram replies. The affection is still there. The intent is still there. But the civic friction of the city sits between people. In cities like Bengaluru, maintaining friendships has quietly become an act of effort. And sometimes, effort is the first casualty of urban and civic exhaustion.

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Skill India. The CAG just exposed what INR 10,194 crore of your tax money actually bought. PMKVY ran from 2015 to 2022. Three phases. INR 14,450 crore outlay. The goal was to skill 1.32 crore youth. CAG audited it. Here’s what they found. 95.90 lakh participants under PMKVY 2.0 and 3.0. For 90.66 lakh of them, that’s 94.53%, the bank account field was recorded as zero, null, N/A, or just left blank. Bank accounts were mandatory for Rs 500 DBT payments. So where did the money go? The remaining 5.24 lakh who actually had bank details? 12,122 account numbers were repeated across 52,381 people. And some of those accounts were literally “11111111111” and “123456”. Single digit entries. Text. Names. Special characters instead of account numbers. Now here’s the wild part. A company called Neelima Moving Pictures (NMP). Not even registered with the Registrar of Companies. This company certified 33,493 people across 8 states in 21 job roles between January and November 2020. When CAG went looking for NMP in October 2022, the company didn’t exist anymore. They were told it shut down during COVID. But the photos NMP submitted as training proof? Same batch photo used for Bihar’s Gaya district, UP’s Bahraich and Shravasti, Maharashtra’s Jalgaon, and Rajasthan’s Sri Ganganagar. Different states. Different batches. Same photo. Emails sent by CAG for verification? 36.51% bounced. The ones that came back? Many were sent from training partner email IDs, not the actual trainees. 2.72 lakh email addresses were null. Over 3.08 lakh were repeated. In Bihar, 3 out of 10 training centres were physically shut when inspectors showed up. The portal still showed training was happening. 34 lakh+ certified candidates have still not received their DBT payment. Overall placement rate? Just 41%. And the official PMKVY website? Try opening pmkvyofficial.org right now. It doesn’t even load. INR 10,000 crore spent to skill India’s youth. 94% didn’t even have valid bank accounts on record. Ghost companies certifying thousands with recycled photos. Centres that exist on a portal but are locked on the ground. This isn’t an allegation. This is the Comptroller and Auditor General of India’s own report. Who is accountable?

So a white supremacist thinks the natural oil reserves only belong to them and if Iranians have them by nature, they are terr0rists. Wow. The audacity and the entitlement.

Just wow